Example sentences of "as [subord] she had [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acting as quickly as when she had gone to ground after Nicandra 's Nettie , she took his hand , lightly as a tame bird arriving to perch on a finger ; with a touching confidence in his response , she turned her little monkey 's face up to him , dropped the hand she had touched and , without a backward look led the way to the Ballroom . |
| 2 | Just as when she had spoken to him , the invitation seemed overt . |
| 3 | Molly spoke with quiet confidence as though she had become in the few hours since their arrival the owner of ‘ La Felicità ’ and the organizer of life in the house . |
| 4 | Discarding pretence still further , she opened one of the drawers in the white chest of drawers , slamming it shut at once on the unfashionable baby clothes that Nannie had left in tidy small piles , washed and mended as though she had planned for them an after-life in which Nannie 's memory should have a lasting importance . |
| 5 | Blanche shivered with unease , as though she had stumbled into a crypt . |
| 6 | A tall young woman , with hair that looked thick and wild and was streaked blonde as though she had cavorted under the sun all the days of her life . |
| 7 | The other three looked at her as though she had spoken in an old and now unknown language . |
| 8 | But the texture of her sleep was light and shimmering and when she opened her eyes again much later , it did not seem as though she had slept at all . |
| 9 | She sat down on the floor and took great heaving breaths as though she had come up a hill with a burden beyond her strength . |